Japan asked the international media to change how we write their names. No one listened

In a full-page spread on March 2, 1979, the Los Angeles Times introduced its readers to Pinyin, a Chinese romanization system it said was changing the "familiar map of China."

source https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/20/media/japan-abe-shinzo-name-intl-hnk/index.html